At around 5:45 a.m., fire consumed at least a portion of the second floor on the east end of the building and left a gaping hole in the roof of the Woodbury Heights Fire Co. station house in Gloucester County, New Jersey.
One firefighter was taken to hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation. The blaze was reported declared under control at 6:46 a.m.. No fire trucks were damaged.
Woodbury Heights Fire Department,a fire company founded in 1911, is an all-volunteer department that maintains two pumpers, one rescue pumper and one ambulance, according to its website.
“It looks to me like the whole second floor is gone,” Fire Chief Rob Conley said of the damage. He also said officials didn’t have in mind a possible cause for the fire as of around 7:30 a.m., but that the Gloucester County Fire Marshal’s Office would begin investigating as soon as they could.
An investigation will be launched to determine the cause of the blaze.
(The usual disclaimers: I am not a journalist; This is a blog that expresses an outlook and is not conclusive in any shape or manner.)
